Unable to use S/MIME for signing if both S/MIME and OpenPGP are available

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Alex Merkel

24 Apr, 2020 03:10 PM

I have an account with both an S/MIME and a PGP certificate/key available. Despite being able to select both S/MIME and OpenPGP in the top right corner of the compose window, the selection does not seem to have an effect. Even when selecting S/MIME, the PGP key is always used to sign the message.

MacOS 10.15.4
Mail 13.4
GPG Mail 4.0

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Steve on 27 Apr, 2020 10:11 PM

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    Hi Alex,

    welcome to the GPGTools support platform. Sorry you are having problems using GPG Suite.

    There is a known problem in GPG Suite 2019.2 on macOS Catalina, that switching away from the default method is not respected. That means whichever method you set as default it will always be used.

    This problem is already fixed in our hotfix release.

    Could you please download and install our latest hotfix GPG Suite and see if that solves your problem.

    All the best,
    Steve

    Disclaimer: Hotfixes are GPG Suite builds containing our latest source code, so bugs and crashes may occur.

  2. 2 Posted by Stas on 02 May, 2020 05:27 PM

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    Hi,

    Was able to reproduce the issue on the stable release and can confirm that SMIME\GPG selector works fine now with the latest hotfix installed.

  3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Steve on 05 May, 2020 09:51 PM

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    Glad this is solved for you. I'm closing this discussion. Should you need further assistance or have questions you can re-open this discussion here or open a new one any time.

    Best,
    Steve

  4. Steve closed this discussion on 05 May, 2020 09:51 PM.

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